We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption … variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …

This paper explores the impact of corruption on both the banking sector and economic growth; we determine the impact … using aggregate data from the World Bank covering 120 countries over the period 2004-2017. The results of 3SLS regressions … show that the relationship between corruption and the ratio of nonperforming loans was positive, thus deteriorating the …

Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic … freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on … techniques regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic …